“…In fact, 7 studies enrolled patients undergoing surgical procedures (e.g. splenectomy, hepatectomy, or gastroesophageal devascularisation) [22][23][24]27,[30][31][32], often in combination with other risk factors (such as liver cirrhosis [23,24,27,30,31] or HCC [32]); 4 studies enrolled patients with liver cirrhosis only [21,25,26,28] and one study enrolled patients with HCC only [29]. In addition, 9 studies evaluated patients with different degree of liver dysfunction, as expressed by Child-Pugh classes A, B or C [21,[23][24][25][26]28,[30][31][32]; however, separate sensitivity and specificity data were available only in 7 of them [21,23,25,26,28,31,32].…”